[tor-bugs] #9332 [BridgeDB]: Revive the BridgeDB bridge-sending mailing list

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#9332: Revive the BridgeDB bridge-sending mailing list
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     Reporter:  asn       |      Owner:
         Type:  task      |     Status:  needs_information
     Priority:  normal    |  Milestone:
    Component:  BridgeDB  |    Version:
   Resolution:            |   Keywords:  email list distributor important
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Comment (by sysrqb):

 Something else we need to take into account is pluggable transports.
 Right now we have 560ish regular bridges available for distribution
 using these emails. I don't know how many of those bridges support
 obfs2 or obfs3 (BridgeDB doesn't tell us that right now, we'll work
 on that).

 To give us a rough idea, these are the number of transports bridges
 support for all bridges in BridgeDB:
    2798: 0
    150:  1
    793:  2
    2:    3

 It's probably safe to assume that the ~800 bridges with two PTs support
 obfs2 and obfs3, which are likely the bridges we will want to
 distribute, and we only have 20% of that 800 that are not already
 allocated to the web and email distributor, leaving us with only ~160
 obfs3 bridges to send in these emails. It might be good to start out
 providing only a few bridges to each person, and then we can easily
 increase the number they receive at a later point. If we separate obfs2
 and obfs3 bridges then we'll be able to stretch these bridges a bit
 further, but I need to finish #9652 before that will be possible. We
 should also consider rebalancing the distribution of bridges if we
 are sending emails again. Currently 40% go to the web, 40% go to the
 email distributor and the rest are reserved for 'other' (such as these
 emails).

 This isn't going to happen within the next week, but hopefully we will
 see these emails being sent before next year.

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